Now that I'm a commie it is really starting to drive me nuts that like 97% of US Americans think exploiting workers in the global south is totally ok and normal. Like, yeah it's totally cool that Nike pays workers 56¢ an hour it's ok because they're used to being poor and that's the prevailing wage there anyway...
You add it all up and you realize how much of the "miracle" of alleged high living standards resulting from capitalism is just exploitation of things outside of the system - nature and workers in the global south. And animals (you can only get a $3 chicken by treating that chicken really terribly). Of course workers domestically are exploited it's just the math is a little more confusing because those workers also benefit from exploitation of the environment and the global poor.
I literally just finished The Dispossessed and really loved it, so I downloaded the one you mentioned + all the other Hainish Cycle books to my e-reader.
I love how libs totally think they'd be the ones who'd walk away like it's an epic piece of dystopian fiction and not a deliberate situation literally a billion times better than the current one.
Now that I'm a commie it is really starting to drive me nuts that like 97% of US Americans think exploiting workers in the global south is totally ok and normal. Like, yeah it's totally cool that Nike pays workers 56¢ an hour it's ok because they're used to being poor and that's the prevailing wage there anyway...
You add it all up and you realize how much of the "miracle" of alleged high living standards resulting from capitalism is just exploitation of things outside of the system - nature and workers in the global south. And animals (you can only get a $3 chicken by treating that chicken really terribly). Of course workers domestically are exploited it's just the math is a little more confusing because those workers also benefit from exploitation of the environment and the global poor.
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You should read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by the great Ursula K. Le Guin. Its a very short read and relevant to what you said.
I literally just finished The Dispossessed and really loved it, so I downloaded the one you mentioned + all the other Hainish Cycle books to my e-reader.
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Oh man I have to get into the Hainish Cycle books. I've heard so much about them and its Le Guin so I'm confident about their quality.
I love how libs totally think they'd be the ones who'd walk away like it's an epic piece of dystopian fiction and not a deliberate situation literally a billion times better than the current one.
Or listen to fever (read by former proles of the table)